Beachwatch 2006 17th September

[mary]

The launch of this is to be on this coming Friday at 10am in the Corran Halls, Oban.
The Agenda is 10am Tea/coffee
10.30 Welcome by Matt Lewis GRAB Trust
10.40 Calum Duncan Marine Conservation Society
11.10 Suzanne Roberts Keep Scotland Beautiful
11.40 Local/Regional Group
12.15 Lunch
13.30 Workshops and Discussion Groups
15.30 Finish

I am planning to go and if anyone else would like to go and would like a lift please pm me

[petewick]

I live in Oban Mary, so I will come along.


petewick

[jdcarra]

I live in Oban Mary, so I will come along.


petewick

pete

Any information packs or leaflets going spare ,could you ask Mary to take some home for me?

Much appreciated

JD

[petewick]

I live in Oban Mary, so I will come along.


petewick

pete

Any information packs or leaflets going spare ,could you ask Mary to take some home for me?

Much appreciated

JD

Will do JD

[mary]

The launch of the Argyll & Bute Beach Forum took place last Friday. The event was very well attended with a number of dedicated individuals and representatives from various community councils and beach watch groups from all over Argyll & Bute. We were impressed by the committment and dedication of the representatives from the various supporting organisations, Claire Pescod of the Clyde Forum, Suzanne Roberts of Keep Scotland Beautiful, Calum Duncan of the Marine Conservation society and of course Matt Lewis of GRAB who hosted the event and last but not least the new Argyll & Bute Beach officer, Aisa Hebreda who will be the Forum's project manager. We all came away inspired and encouraged and determined to renew our efforts to keep our beaches and the marine environment clean. Here in Campbeltown we already have a Beachwatch Group but as a result of what we learned on Friday we are now going to get ourselves properly constituted and apply for charitable status. If we do that we can access funding from the lottery etc to help fund our efforts to upgrade beaches such as Dalintober and also to help with the cost of disposal of the litter which at the moment is being subsidised by the Council who do not really have the funding for this.
If anyone is interested in joining our local group please pm me.